[216a] This valuable pamphlet is signed “J.G.,” and is believed to be by John Gay.
[216b] Edmund Curll’s collection of Swift’s Miscellanies, published in 1711, was an expansion of a pamphlet of 1710, A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and somewhat beside, of the same Author’s.
[217a] “In this passage DD signifies both Dingley and Stella” (Deane Swift).
[217b] Sir Henry Craik’s reading. The old editions have, “It would do: DD goes as well as Presto,” which is obviously corrupt.
[217c] Cf. Journal, June 17, 1712.
[217d] Cf. “old doings” (see p. [73].)
[217f] Rymer’s Fœdera, in three volumes, which Swift obtained for Trinity College, Dublin.